Where Angels Fear
Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read

> Those are great images.

Thanks.

The original impetus for that piece was Ian Banks’ The Wasp Factory and the protagonist’s brother (IIRC) who was locked up for setting fire to dogs.

I’ve long since had a vision in my head of the effect of doing exactly that to a dog in a crowded town centre on a busy weekend …

The sea of people parting as it bounds, screaming into the crowd … those further away unaware of what is happening, or why, but moving with the wave … left or right … as a negative funnel is formed of people clearing space for it.

And the looks on their faces as those in front of them dart aside, allowing them to see for themselves, for the first time, what the cause of their own commotion is and has been.

It’s almost absurdist/dadaist in its surreality, don’t you think? Performance surrealism.

Obviously, it’s not something I’d ever be inclined to do …. but the image stuck with me … eventually transmogrifying into the ‘painting’ I described — which … as the cause is unknown and, potentially, an ‘innocent’ accident … requires no agency … no protagonist … and renders it abstract … impressionistic … a potential painting … Art.

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